In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report 2016-06 – Corrected Opinion

CourtSupreme Court of Florida
DecidedApril 13, 2017
DocketSC16-1185
StatusPublished

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Opinion

Supreme Court of Florida ____________

No. SC16-1185 ____________

IN RE: STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES— REPORT 2016-06.

[February 9, 2017] CORRECTED OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal

Cases (Committee) has submitted proposed changes to the standard jury

instructions and asks that the Court authorize for publication and use the amended

and newly adopted standard instructions. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a),

Fla. Const.

The Committee proposes amending existing standard instructions 10.9

(False Reports of Bombing); 10.10 (False Reports of Bombing State-Owned

Property); 13.1 (Burglary); and 21.7 (Giving False Name or Identification to Law

Enforcement Officer Adversely Affecting Another). In addition, the Committee

proposes new instruction 8.22(a) (Threat to [Kill] [Do Serious Bodily Harm to] a

[Public Official] [Family Member of a Public Official]). Following publication of its proposals by the Committee, two comments were received by the Committee,

from the Florida Public Defenders Association and the Florida Association of

Criminal Defense Lawyers, pertaining to the proposals to create new instruction

8.22(a) and to amend instructions 10.9 and 10.10. The Committee did not make

any changes to its proposals. After the Committee filed its report, the Court did

not publish the proposals. The Court authorizes instructions 13.1 and 21.7 as

proposed, and authorizes instructions 8.22(a), 10.9, and 10.10, with modifications.

The more significant amendments to the instructions are discussed below.

New instruction 8.22(a) (Threat to [Kill] [Do Serious Bodily Harm to] a

[Public Official] [Family Member of a Public Official]), instructs upon the new

misdemeanor crime in section 836.12(2), Florida Statutes (2016), enacted in

chapter 2016-156, section 3, Laws of Florida. The new subsection provides as

follows:

Any person who threatens a law enforcement officer, a state attorney, an assistant state attorney, a firefighter, a judge, or an elected official, or a family member of such persons, with death or serious bodily harm commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

§ 836.12(2), Fla. Stat. (2016). With regard to instruction 8.22(a), upon

consideration of the comments received by the Committee and the Committee’s

response, we authorize instruction 8.22(a), and add a provision to instruct jurors

that the State must prove that the defendant knew that the person threatened was

-2- within the class of protected persons identified in the statute, including “law

enforcement officer,” “state attorney,” “assistant state attorney,” “firefighter,”

“judge,” “elected official,” or “family member” of such persons.

Instruction 10.9, amended in light of the 2016 amendments to the statutory

definition of the crime, in section 790.163(1), Florida Statutes (2016), see ch.

2016-156, § 1, Laws of Fla., is retitled “False Reports Concerning the [Placing or

Planting of a Bomb, Dynamite, Other Deadly Explosive, or a Weapon of Mass

Destruction] [Use of Firearms in a Violent Manner Against a Person].” Instruction

10.10, also amended in light of the 2016 amendments to the statutory definition of

the crime, in section 790.164, Florida Statutes (2016), see ch. 2016-156, § 2, Laws

of Fla., is retitled “False Reports Concerning [The Placing or Planting of a Bomb,

Dynamite, Other Deadly Explosive, or a Weapon of Mass Destruction] [An Act of

Arson or Other Violence] To Property Owned by the State [or Any Political

Subdivision].” In both instructions 10.9 and 10.10, consistent with sections

790.163(3) and 790.164(3), respectively, and upon review of the comments

received by the Committee and the Committee’s response thereto, the Court has

replaced the Committee’s “inference provision” with the following language:

“Proof that a person knowingly made a false report is prima facie evidence of that

person’s intent to deceive, mislead, or otherwise misinform any person.”

-3- Having considered the Committee’s report, jury instructions 8.22(a), 10.9,

and 10.10, as modified by the Court, and instructions 13.1 and 21.7, as proposed

by the Committee, and as set forth in the appendix to this opinion, are hereby

authorized for publication and use.1 New language is indicated by underlining, and

deleted language is indicated by struck-through type. In authorizing the

publication and use of these instructions, we express no opinion on their

correctness and remind all interested parties that this authorization forecloses

neither requesting additional or alternative instructions nor contesting the legal

correctness of the instructions. We further caution all interested parties that any

comments associated with the instructions reflect only the opinion of the

Committee and are not necessarily indicative of the views of this Court as to their

correctness or applicability. The instructions as set forth in the appendix shall be

effective when this opinion becomes final.

It is so ordered.

LABARGA, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, and POLSTON, JJ., concur. LAWSON, J., did not participate.

1. The amendments as reflected in the appendix are to the Criminal Jury Instructions as they appear on the Court’s website at www.floridasupremecourt.org /jury_instructions/instructions.shtml. We recognize that there may be minor discrepancies between the instructions as they appear on the website and the published versions of the instructions. Any discrepancies as to instructions authorized for publication and use after October 25, 2007, should be resolved by reference to the published opinion of this Court authorizing the instruction.

-4- NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND IF FILED, DETERMINED.

Original Proceeding – Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases

Judge Frederic Rand Wallis, Chair, Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases, Daytona Beach, Florida; and Barton Neil Schneider, Staff Liaison, Office of the State Courts Administrator, Tallahassee, Florida,

for Petitioner

-5- APPENDIX

8.22(a) THREAT TO [KILL] [DO SERIOUS BODILY HARM TO] A [PUBLIC OFFICIAL] [FAMILY MEMBER OF A PUBLIC OFFICIAL] § 836.12(2), Fla. Stat.

To prove the crime of Threat to [Kill] [Do Serious Bodily Harm to] a [Public Official] [Family Member of a Public Official], the State must prove the following three elements beyond a reasonable doubt:

1. (Defendant) threatened to [kill] [do serious bodily harm to] (person receiving threat).

2. At the time, (person receiving threat) was a[n] [family member of a[n]] [law enforcement officer] [state attorney] [assistant state attorney] [firefighter] [judge] [elected official].

3. (Defendant) knew (victim) was a[n] [family member of a[n]] [law enforcement officer] [state attorney] [assistant state attorney] [firefighter] [judge] [elected official].

Definitions. Give if applicable. § 836.12(1)(a), Fla. Stat. “Family member” means: 1. An individual related to another individual by blood or marriage; or 2. An individual who stands in loco parentis to another individual. “In loco parentis” means in place of a parent.

§ 836.12(1)(b), Fla. Stat.

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